How the Jews Regard Seventh-day Adventists
THE Judean, a Jewish paper, published in Minneapolis, Minn., bearing date of March 9, 1906, contains a first-page report of our work in the Northern Union Conference. After giving a summary report of the conference, the article continues as follows:— “What interests us in this connection is the earnestness and zeal with which these people live up to their principle of observing the Biblical or Jewish Sabbath, and the valiant fight they are making for justice and freedom of conscience. The Sunday laws of the different States and communities seriously interfere with these people's religious convictions and practices. But they are not passive onlookers and sufferers from this interference. On the contrary, small as they are in numbers and though not endowed with a superfluity of worldly means, they are still waging a battle royal against every infringement of their rights, against every attempt at a union of church and state. For that is what in the last analysis, all Sunday legislation means. They are maintaining a special office at Washington, D. C., in which close watch is kept on all legislation proposed or enacted in the nation's legislative halls which might in some way affect the principle of freedom of conscience in this country. And just now petitions are being circulated by the Adventists for signatures to prevail on Congress not to pass a certain law which aims at the enforcement of stricter Sunday observance in the District of Columbia. For, say our friends, the Adventists, such a bill passed for the District of Columbia will serve as a stimulus for fanatics and bigots to have more stringent laws passed in other communities, and ultimately to drag God or Jesus into the Constitution, and so we must try to nip it all in the bud.”